So over the years I have been telling people that the computer game industry has gone to hell, and its finally starting to show up on the 360 (yay!).

So 9 of the last 11 computer games I bought didn't work the first day I got them. They took countless updates and driver changes to get them to work for a measly hour and most of them I had to wait for the fourth or fifth game patch to even have a stable enough game that I could play. Three of them still flake out and crash to this day (i gave up on them ever working, thanks Witcher). So this brings me to a few days ago playing the sims 3 and I saved/exited the game only to discover that really save now means permanently delete. I thought to myself "This would never happen if I were on a console."...

LESS THAN ONE WEEK LATER: My brother and I just got around to getting the two non-multilayer DLCs for Borderlands. After an hour of trying to transfer his lvl 50 char from my xbox to his xbox (and failed), and figuring out that if he was the first player and not just signed it would allow us to load both the DLCs and not just have an error with the second, we finally decided to just use my 50 and his 43, wouldn't take that long to power-level him up anyhow. So we get a good 10 mins of game time in before I had to leave to go somewhere and we save/exit. Low and behold his character was gone. Gone from the game, and the HDD. No possible way to recover.

I get it, computers are extremely versatile in what hardware they have and in the configurations that they appear, but the gaming industry just lost their scapegoat, the xbox is the same, each one is made the same, same hardware, everything. Whats the excuse now for these horrific bugs? A game crash losing an hour of play is one thing, but a "successful" save that really removes all existence of ever playing the game? No error message and no chance at recovery?

Well, I give up. Fork over an extra 25 bucks just to have to start over from the beginning of the game. I guess ill just go play wii now, give it a chance to throughly disappoint me.

Actually no, they were all in solo play. (Dead space, spore, bioshock, the witcher, black&white, prey and chrysis are all included in the list: "Did not work out of the box")

The largest problem I find with PC games and their patches is they can range from 50 to 100 mb! So you want to sit down and play a game, well now your waiting another hour to download the patch.

as my instructor, Bell, puts it: "if you worked for microsoft, its a feature and not a bug."

Custom built, but nothing "exotic" all mainstream hardware. Most of the issues made me upgrade my gfx card to beta drivers. (NV 8800)

That's funny and sucks at the same time lol